TELEGRAMS, NOTES, ORDERS

1 Written in response to a note from B. D. Bonch-Bruevich, who reminded Lenin (at his request) of the necessity to confer with the People's Commissar of Justice P. I. Stuchka about irregularities in one of the commissions.

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TELEGRAM TO IVANOV-CAUCASIAN.

Biryulevo
Ryazan-Ural
To the Commander of the Detachment
Ivanov-Caucasian1.

[July 1918]

A complaint has been lodged against you that you have requisitioned writing supplies, including a desk belonging to the station commander. Return the items immediately. Send your explanations by telegraph. Proceed further without delay. I demand loyalty toward the railway workers.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Lenin.

Ivanov-Caucasian was the commander of a combat detachment for the protection of the Ryazan-Ural Railway.

ORDERS TO THE SECRETARY.

AUGUST 4 — DECEMBER 18, 1918

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[August 4, 1918]

Call Muralov
read this telegram to him, order
the arrest of bribe-takers—.

Lenin.

1 P. I. Muralov was the commander of the troops of the Moscow Military District.

2 The reference is to a telegram from Gorbunov, the commander of a combat detachment protecting the Kursk-Nizhny Novgorod circuit railway, informing Lenin that a group of captured Austrians being directed to Moscow without documents, detained by him on the night of August 2nd and transported to Moscow, was detained by him again several hours later at Serpukhov station, and the arrested men presented documents from the Civil Commissariat permitting their entry to Moscow. For the issuance of these permits, one ruble was taken from each prisoner at the Commissariat.